The following are the basic elements of a building: 1. Foundation 2. Plinth 3. Walls and columns 4. Sills, lintels and chejjas 5. Doors and windows 6. Floors 7. Roofs 8. Steps, stairs and lifts 9. Finishing work 10. Building services. The functions of these elements and the main requirement …

here are the three kind of settlements, occured in soil Immediate Settilement primery settilement (consolidation settlement) secondry settlement Immidiate settlement : Immediate settlement take place during the construction or after the construction of structure. its also known a distorsion settlement. It’s computed by the elastic theory especially for cohesion …